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Its more pungent, with both more general garlickyness and more of that spicy astringent allium thing (most of the time not all varieties are the same, and there are some pungent soft necks). But its got larger and much easier to peel cloves.
The stalk at the center of the bulb will be hard and hollow, and you should be able to see it or feel it projecting from the top of the bulb where the paper is closed up. Which is an easy way to identify it. Hard neck usually has a single ring of large cloves around the center stalk. As opposed to soft neck where there’s 2 rings, small cloves, and weird little tiny cloves wedged in between the layers and close to the stalk.
That’s what make’s soft neck purportedly easier to grow at commercial scale. Many more cloves per head, which means breaking up a head to plant produces a lot more plants. It not so much easier to grow as easier to propagate. Though the cloves apparently sprout easier due to the thinner shell, which is not something I noticed growing both in my garden.
